My First Georgia Outdoor Grow

[SouthernGuerilla]

Well, I guess if you don't expect much, you won't get disappointed much. Your plants are looking real nice, maybe a little stretchy from all the shade, but that's part of growing in the great outdoors. Mine do that too, when I try to get them out of the rain and under a tree. When you plant outdoors, you should realize that there will be a certain amount of loss. Sometimes you don't loose much, but sometimes you do. There are lots of bugs, diseases and herbivores that you just can't control like you can indoors.

All in all, wow, what a difference from the beginning of this thread. Nice, real nice. Congrats, you'll soon be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

A quick word of advice or 2. If it starts raining, check daily for bud rot, especially on any varieties that tend to have tight, dense buds. It would be better to harvest early, than let bud rot begin to spread. If you get it, don't smoke it, very bad for you. Also, now that your plants are getting tall they are also getting heavy around the buds. Especially if it rains, and probably even if it doesn't, some of the heavier buds may break at the stems' weak point if they are not somehow supported. If I get a real big bud going, before the rains come I want to be sure to tie it up to a neighboring bush, steel spike, or something else.

Did I say "nice"?

"Many medical cannabis opponents note that smoking cannabis is harmful to the respiratory system. However, this harm can be minimalized or eliminated by the use of a vaporizer or ingesting the drug in an edible form or other non-smoking modes of delivery like tinctures. Vaporizers are devices that vaporize the active constituents (cannabinoids) and the fragrant aromatic substances in the preparation without combusting the plant material and thus preventing the formation of toxic substances. Studies have shown that vaporizers can dramatically reduce[31] or even eliminate[32] the release of irritants and toxic compounds.
Aspergillus fumigatus

In order to kill microorganisms, especially mold, occasionally found in low-quality cannabis, the scientists "Levitz and Diamond (1991) suggested baking marijuana in home ovens at 150 °C [302 °F], for five minutes before smoking. Oven treatment killed conidia of A. fumigatus, A. flavus and A. niger, and did not degrade the active component of marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)." ---- Medical cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Opie Yutts]

"Many medical cannabis opponents note that smoking cannabis is harmful to the respiratory system. However, this harm can be minimalized or eliminated by the use of a vaporizer or ingesting the drug in an edible form or other non-smoking modes of delivery like tinctures. Vaporizers are devices that vaporize the active constituents (cannabinoids) and the fragrant aromatic substances in the preparation without combusting the plant material and thus preventing the formation of toxic substances. Studies have shown that vaporizers can dramatically reduce[31] or even eliminate[32] the release of irritants and toxic compounds.
Aspergillus fumigatus

In order to kill microorganisms, especially mold, occasionally found in low-quality cannabis, the scientists "Levitz and Diamond (1991) suggested baking marijuana in home ovens at 150 °C [302 °F], for five minutes before smoking. Oven treatment killed conidia of A. fumigatus, A. flavus and A. niger, and did not degrade the active component of marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)." ---- Medical cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Does anyone know if vaporizing kills all harmful substances in moldy material?

[SouthernGuerilla]

AGAIN! :thumbsup:
In order to kill microorganisms, especially mold, occasionally found in low-quality cannabis, the scientists "Levitz and Diamond (1991) suggested baking marijuana in home ovens at 150 °C [302 °F], for five minutes before smoking.

I would assume this would kill all mold and leave you with some very dry bud.

[Opie Yutts]

Yeah but...

Once the mold is dead, doesn't it still have harmful spores or whatever? Dead mold is smokable, and live mold is not? And doesn't mold die when it is lit on fire in the bong? Why would that be an unacceptable death, while baking it is fine? Not trying to be a dick, just trying to understand.

[SouthernGuerilla]

Yeah but...

Once the mold is dead, doesn't it still have harmful spores or whatever? Dead mold is smokable, and live mold is not? And doesn't mold die when it is lit on fire in the bong? Why would that be an unacceptable death, while baking it is fine? Not trying to be a dick, just trying to understand.

Baking for 5min is sketchy, I would personally do it for longer or compost the molded bud.

The idea here is to bake it for however long to get an ambient temp of 305 degrees F. The idea with baking is to have the air and your bud at 305 degrees F. The Shroomery or some other site might explain this better.

It probably would be better off to take 90% or better rubbing alcohol(200 proof alcohol or something at least 150 proof should work also) and extract the THC out of the molded bud than it would be to smoke it. *shrug*. :wtf:

Here goes a possibly bass ackwards analogy. Boiling water for 30min is supposed to kill anything harmful in it and is then considered "safe" for human consumption. Like water out of a creek. Taking a lighter to your glass of creek water isn't gonna cut it.

The molded bud needs to be thoroughly cooked to kill the mold, just like cooking hamburger meat well done so you don't get E Coli or whatever other funky stuff is growing in the hamburger meat.

[SouthernGuerilla]

hey dg how about an update?

:thumbsup:

[phatsesh101]

nobody even knows if inhaled mold is harmful penicillan is mold at a point who knows maybe since cannbis kills cancer cells maybe its mold will cure aids as long as it aint a giant fucking mold ball smoke it. cannabis has stuff that keeps you from getting lung cancer from the tar it gives off

[dgsgandalf]

So my fears were confirmed. The mango's are heavily seeded by the master kush male. The Thai Stick plants are still sinsemillia and should produce a nice harvest but i probably won't get any good bud out of the mango's.

On the flip side, i was planning on doing a Mango/Master Kush cross, and now it's done for me! If the buds produce a lot of seeds i might have a few to give away

Here are some pics...

[dj00140]

beautiful! how long till harvest on the last pic?

[SouthernGuerilla]

Nice pics. Pick me some black berries when they ripen! The Mango is in the first pic? Mango X Master Kush or "The Gandolf Special!"

One patch of my sack seed plants are really starting to smell like lemon/citrus, makes my mouth water. They're showing preflowers, and bushing out fairly well. Not any monsters but they are looking good to me. My biggest babies appear to be female. Since this is the 1st time I've let any cannabis grow this late in the year I'm not totally sure. But I'm fairly positive from what I've read and seen on this forum and else where.

I found a pill bug/rolly polly on one of my plants just walking around on the leaves. Just an odd tid bit.